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Personal leaders and party change: Italy in comparative perspective

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 October 2015

Fortunato Musella
Fortunato Musella*
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Department of Social Sciences, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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*E-mail: fortunato.musella@unina.it
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LeadersPolitical PartiesPersonalisation
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Italian Political Science Review / Rivista Italiana di Scienza Politica , Volume 45 , Special Issue 3: The Personal Leader in Contemporary Party Politics , November 2015 , pp. 227 - 247
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